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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
filiform -2 in. long style. Fruit a globose berry, with a conical top 
and the remains of the style, glabrous, striate with linear-oblong 
prominent glands. 
Perak : Wray 1590. Selangor : Curtis 3750, at 3,000 to 4,000 
feet. 
5. Ardisia, Swartz. 
Small trees, shrubs or semi-herbaceous undershrubs, evergreen, 
generally all parts with pellucid glands which often dry black. Leaves 
sessile or petiolate, membranous to coriaceous, entire crenate or 
serrate. Flowers regular, pedicellate, hermaphrodite ; inflorescence 
various. Calyx inferior, 4-6-lobed, the lobes free or overlapping to 
the right; tube very open, as long as or shorter than the lobes. Corolla 
red white or spotted, often waxy in appearance, 4-6-lobed, the tube 
often very short ; the lobes overlapping to the right, often twisted. 
Stamens equal in number to, and opposite to, the corolla-lobes, some- 
times long and narrow, usually sagittate-lanceolate and apiculate, 
sometimes very small, fixed to the corolla-tube by filaments usually 
short and broad ; generally opening by slits, occasionally by terminal 
pores, in A. littoralis septate ; dehiscence always introrse. Ovary 
globose, sometimes narrowed into the style, more often almost 
depressed ; style usually filiform, rather long ; stigma punctiform ; 
ovules few or many, immersed in a globose placenta. Fruit a globose,, 
rarely obovoid, berry, usually surmounted by the remains of the style, 
fleshy, red or purple or black, often spotted ; endocarp crustaceous ; 
1-seeded. Seed solitary, large, globose, hollowed at the base ; albumen 
pitted or ruminate ; embryo cylindric horizontal. — Distrib. 200 to 250 
species, all of tropical or sub-tropical regions in both worlds, scarce 
in Africa. 
Leaves entire or crenate, never serrate : — 
Leaves entire, or if crenate without glands in the 
crenatures : — 
Calyx-lobes not, or only slightly, overlapping to 
the right, usually small : — 
Inflorescence lateral : — 
Inflorescence short-peduneled, shorter than 
the leaves (I. Pimelandea) 
Leaves entire ; inflorescence on wood of 
current and past years : — 
Leaves over 6 in. long ; nerves con- 
spicuous : — 
Leaves nearly glabrous beneath ; 
main-nerves less than 20 ..1. A. pachy sandra. 
Leaves densely tomentose beneath ; 
main-nerves more than 20 .. 2. A. Teysmanniana. 
